Locals in Sadar upazila are stirred by the success of a farmer in growing a new variety of a larger jujube, known as Kashmiri apple kul, which has an attractive appearance similar to a small reddish apple and is tastier than other large jujubes available in the country.

Indiscriminate earth and sand extraction from the Pungli river at Kalihati upazila poses threat to two bridges, one on Joydevpur-Elenga highway and the other on Joydevpur-Bangabandhu Bridge rail route.

A man, brutally tortured allegedly by a moneylender and his family members at the latter’s house at Baluadanga of Dinajpur Municipality, is groaning in pain at M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital.

A Sirajganj court yesterday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment for raping a girl.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says the Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill will soon be placed before the Cabinet to bring all media people, including those in electronic media, under a legal protection.

Around 10,000 Bangladeshis with Umrah visas remain uncertain about performing their pilgrimage as the Saudi government has imposed a temporary ban on foreigners’ entry to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will investigate the alleged illegal wealth amassed by expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia, ACC Chairman Iqbal Mahmood says.

A Cox’s Bazar court has framed charges against 97 alleged yaba peddlers in a case filed under the narcotics control act.

A Bangladeshi aspirant pilgrim will have to spend a minimum of Tk 3,61,800 to perform hajj this year under private management, around Tk 17,000 more than the previous year.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has raised the power tariff by 5.3 percent at retail and 8.4 percent at wholesale levels.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the newly-elected mayors and councillors of the two Dhaka city corporations to pay special attention to keep mosquitoes in check -- particularly Aedes -- so that the insects do not “eat up their votes”.

Doctors confirm that Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has not been infected with the novel coronavirus.

The High Court rejects a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking bail on health and humanitarian grounds in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from China's Wuhan city -- epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak -- on a special Indian flight which landed in Delhi today.

A locomotive of Bangladesh Railway (BR), which was badly damaged in a fire after a derailment in 2013, has been finally made functional by the experts of Central Locomotive Workshop in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur.

As part of the ongoing eviction drive to free the Louhajang river from encroachment, 50 more illegal structures, including 10 multi-storey ones, were demolished in Beradomam and Pashchim Akur Takur Para area in Tangail town yesterday.

Influential locals have long been encroaching on three large government ponds in Mohipur union of Kalapara upazila and the union land office made a list of 52 grabbers in August last year.

The Regional Spices Research Centre in Magura has recently distributed among farmers 300 kg of seeds of newly developed Bari-5 variety of onion that can be grown all the year round.

A mobile court sentenced two men to six months’ imprisonment each for stealing earth from a government canal in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday.

A young boy and his sister drowned in a pond in Manikganj town yesterday when they went there to bathe.